Skip to content
228,129 profiles ranked

Joe Pasternak

Hungarian film producer (1901-1991) · United States · On the map · Directors · Died at 89

Joseph Herman Pasternak was a Hungarian-American film producer in Hollywood. Pasternak spent the Hollywood "Golden Age" of musicals at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producing many successful musicals with female singing stars like Deanna Durbin, Kathryn Grayson and Jane Powell, as well as swimmer/bathing beauty Esther...

Joe Pasternak is read about 49 times a day, in 13 languages.

A typical day, 30 days to 12 June 2026

The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.

Something wrong?
Compare

A life in dates

1991Died13 September 19911966PenelopeFilm, Producer1963The Courtship of Eddie's FatherFilm, Producer1960Please Don't Eat the DaisiesFilm, Producer1958Party GirlFilm, Producer1957This Could Be the NightFilm, Producer1955Hit the DeckFilm, Producer1953The OscarsSeries, ProducerSmall Town GirlFilm, 1953Producer1951Rich, Young and PrettyFilm, Producer1949In the Good Old SummertimeFilm, Producer1945Anchors AweighFilm, Producer1944Two Girls and a SailorFilm, Producer1941It Started with EveFilm, Producer1939Destry Rides AgainFilm, Producer1936Three Smart GirlsFilm, Producer1901Born19 September 1901

People around Joe

Known for

View all 40 titles
  • Destry Rides Again 1939
  • Love Me or Leave Me 1955
  • Party Girl 1958
  • Anchors Aweigh 1945
  • Summer Stock 1950

Also in Deutsch Français

Filmography 40

96 credits on file

Television 1

Media & music

Awards

Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

About this person

Pasternak spent the Hollywood "Golden Age" of musicals at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, producing many successful musicals with female singing stars like Deanna Durbin, Kathryn Grayson and Jane Powell, as well as swimmer/bathing beauty Esther Williams' films. He produced Judy Garland's final MGM film, Summer Stock, which was released in 1950, and some of Gene Kelly’s early breakthrough roles. Pasternak worked in the film industry for 45 years, from the later silent era until shortly past the end of the classical Hollywood cinema in 1967.

Country
United States
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1901 to 1991 · aged 89

In the same film or series as Joe

Norman TaurogAlso in The Toast of New Orleans (1950)Fernando LamasAlso in Rich, Young and Pretty (1951)Tony MartinAlso in Hit the Deck (1955)Henry KosterAlso in One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937)Robert KeithAlso in Love Me or Leave Me (1955)